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brown's side, weren't you? >> what i said in the statement was that in the latter years, and again, it's been much political commentary this term, much of which you've asked me to read for this inquiry, but the latter years of tony blair's prime minister should, the hostilities between him and gordon brown has been increasingly worse. and so they are to become a sort of tony blair at camp and the court brown camp. and our particular issues, for example, the world reform bill i think was we first tried to get through in 2004, hostilities between gordon brown and tony blair were such that it didn't get through at that time. we tried again it's very important to have an insight of the hostilities for effect in the way to govern. so you would have an opinion on them. >> whose side were you on? >> neither. on the side of the readers. it wasn't an automatic given that alastair campbell or charlie william were telling you the truth. it was our job to judge and analyze it. >> you told us you were friends with mr. blair
brown's side, weren't you? >> what i said in the statement was that in the latter years, and again, it's been much political commentary this term, much of which you've asked me to read for this inquiry, but the latter years of tony blair's prime minister should, the hostilities between him and gordon brown has been increasingly worse. and so they are to become a sort of tony blair at camp and the court brown camp. and our particular issues, for example, the world reform bill i think was...
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brown: thank you, madam president. i want to reiterate and underscore the words of my colleague, the senior senator from new york, about how important the iran, tightening iran's sanctions are to israel, to the united states of america, and to the stability, really the stability of the world. allowing nuclear weapons in the hands of a country that's as unstable as iran and hostile to so many of our values and our -- i mean most people in the world, not just the united states. not just israel. not just the democratic world. how problematic this is for the entire world. that's why i'm pleased with the work that chairman johnson and ranking member shelby, chairman tim johnson, ranking member shelby, senator menendez, senator graham and others, that this continues to send the important message to iran that we will continue, we will increasingly tighten sanctions. threatening to iran the stability of its economy and helping iran to understand that this will create difficulties for that regime and having any support of its p
brown: thank you, madam president. i want to reiterate and underscore the words of my colleague, the senior senator from new york, about how important the iran, tightening iran's sanctions are to israel, to the united states of america, and to the stability, really the stability of the world. allowing nuclear weapons in the hands of a country that's as unstable as iran and hostile to so many of our values and our -- i mean most people in the world, not just the united states. not just israel....
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black and brown people. and we're talking about women of all colors, again, who have these funny names or who for some reason changed their names and don't have this i.d. this is what we need to be concerned about. and these battles again are continuing. as i said the information on our brennan center report is outdated. because things are happening consistently. you need to understand that there are legislators around this country who, unlike all of us in this room, are not necessarily as concerned about protecting democracy because i'm going to tell you, all of us who are here on the dais today, our organizations are all nonpartisan organizations. we don't care if you're blue, black, purple, yellow, or red. what we are concerned about is all americans have their right to vote protected. that is the message. so don't allow folks to try to pigeonhole this and turn this into a black issue. this is an american issue. this is a democracy issue. [applause] so i'm going to sit down now because i've given you the
black and brown people. and we're talking about women of all colors, again, who have these funny names or who for some reason changed their names and don't have this i.d. this is what we need to be concerned about. and these battles again are continuing. as i said the information on our brennan center report is outdated. because things are happening consistently. you need to understand that there are legislators around this country who, unlike all of us in this room, are not necessarily as...
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brown: thank you, madam president. earlier today senator durbin in the senate judiciary subcommittee on the constitution and civil rights, held a hearing in cleveland to examine efforts to that could hinder the ability of ohioans to exercise one of their fundamental constitutional rights, the right to vote. these eferlts under the guys of -- guise of preventing fraud are part of cynical effort to impede access to the ballot. it areels a number of commonsense measures that assist people with voting. i served as secretary of state of ohio charged with administering elections so i understand what goes into ensuring the fundamental right to vote inherent in that responsibility is ensuring that voting is accessible and free of indim days -- intimidation and roadblocks. over a period of decades, ohio legislators undertook a bipartisan and by underscore that word, bipartisan effort to help ohioans get access to the polls. when i was secretary of state we had significant assistance from republicans as we made voting laws work
brown: thank you, madam president. earlier today senator durbin in the senate judiciary subcommittee on the constitution and civil rights, held a hearing in cleveland to examine efforts to that could hinder the ability of ohioans to exercise one of their fundamental constitutional rights, the right to vote. these eferlts under the guys of -- guise of preventing fraud are part of cynical effort to impede access to the ballot. it areels a number of commonsense measures that assist people with...
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brown: thank you. i rise to discuss why the export-import bank reauthorization is important to strengthening manufacturing and to creating jobs in places like my home state of ohio. ohio is the third leading manufacturing state in the country, only the texas, twice our population, and california, three times our population, produce more goods than we do. the export-import bank is simple, it facilitates exports, contributes to job creation in the united states. it does this through loans and guarantees and insurance, filling in gaps in trade financing at no ultimate cost to taxpayers. yet despite this record of success, exports and jobs are at stake because congress cannot agree to ex-im reauthorization, in large part because there's a group of people in this body and down the hall in the house of representatives who think the federal government should not have a role enough in much of anything. the bank's lending authority is set to ex spire may 31. we must sacramento. the comib has been reauthorized b
brown: thank you. i rise to discuss why the export-import bank reauthorization is important to strengthening manufacturing and to creating jobs in places like my home state of ohio. ohio is the third leading manufacturing state in the country, only the texas, twice our population, and california, three times our population, produce more goods than we do. the export-import bank is simple, it facilitates exports, contributes to job creation in the united states. it does this through loans and...
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brown. is that fair? you did say your list may not be complete in relation to mr. brown. >> i know my list is not complete. i am not sure. i'm sure tony blair had to release the formal and informal meetings and i'm pretty sure if they have, there will be meetings at downing street with mr. brown from that. in may, right up until september. i don't know how many there are. >> the topic of conversation on the third of may 2009 to remember any specific events. did it cover political issues? >> it was done in general terms. there were people at the lunch, but again late 2009, i'm not quite sure that my memory is correct, but i am pretty sure the european constitution debate what shall we say at large as well as afghanistan at the time. so they may have been two of the issues. >> we know on the ninth of september 2009, mr. james murdoch called mr. cameron is the drink of the george that "the sun" was support the conservative party in the next election and the headline was on the front page. i thi
brown. is that fair? you did say your list may not be complete in relation to mr. brown. >> i know my list is not complete. i am not sure. i'm sure tony blair had to release the formal and informal meetings and i'm pretty sure if they have, there will be meetings at downing street with mr. brown from that. in may, right up until september. i don't know how many there are. >> the topic of conversation on the third of may 2009 to remember any specific events. did it cover political...
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brown: mr. brown: i withdraw that request. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous offered, the senate stands in recess until 2:15 p.m. >> we recently spoke with a capitol hill reporter. >>> emily etheridge with congressional quarterly. what are the key issues ahead as the senate debates the food and drug administration bill. >> already included in a manager's amendment we'll see on the floor. i it is about a national drug tracing system allow manufacturers to trace drugs with a serial number as they pass through the system. we'll see drug importation and pda more power to investigate things and give employees whistle-blower protections. >> what is the overall purpose of this fda reauthorization? >> purpose of the user fee program is to give the fda more money to conduct its reviews of products like drugs and medical devices to get money from the companies who are applying to get their drugs or products approved. the fda says they really need this money. they count on it to be able to do the things they do to approve these n
brown: mr. brown: i withdraw that request. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous offered, the senate stands in recess until 2:15 p.m. >> we recently spoke with a capitol hill reporter. >>> emily etheridge with congressional quarterly. what are the key issues ahead as the senate debates the food and drug administration bill. >> already included in a manager's amendment we'll see on the floor. i it is about a national drug tracing system allow...
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-- thomas brown from the cme church. they'll call out our man paul. [laughter] we'll leave for lunch and come back at two o'clock for -- what question was that? [inaudible] we'll have that over here. okay, so having said that, please go to lunch, go quickly. we've got to do more. lunch is right down -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>> our live day long conference on this conference of voting rights continues at 2 p.m. eastern. panelists talk about a tax exempt status in an effort to obscure vote r rights. that wraps up at about 5 p.m. eastern, and it's hosted by the congressional black caucus and conference of national black churches. we have more live programming coming up on the c-span networks. at 4 p.m. eastern, c-span3 covers oversight and purchase for prosthetics for veterans. that's live on c-span3 at 4 p.m. eastern. also with the senate on break all this week, we're featuring some of booktv's weekend programs in prime time here
-- thomas brown from the cme church. they'll call out our man paul. [laughter] we'll leave for lunch and come back at two o'clock for -- what question was that? [inaudible] we'll have that over here. okay, so having said that, please go to lunch, go quickly. we've got to do more. lunch is right down -- [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >>> our live day long conference on this conference of voting rights...
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. >> gentlemen, before i pitch to my colleague ron brown, editorial director of the nj. give a round of applause for rich, john and eliot. [applause] >> thank you. all of you have sat through a incredibly nutritious course. two panels on difference between domestic and foreign policy between president obama and mitt romney. now comes the dessert. >> a bunch of twinkies? >> exactly before either man can implement policies in 2013 they have to win election in november. for the final panel we'll, more how the issue debate will affect the election campaign. to do so we have a joel, who is the president of the benniso in strategy group. -- president obama and advised a array of governors, and mayors. [inaudible] -- most unexpected result. kevin is advisor to the mitt romney campaign in 2008. as a campaign's national press secretary and communication strategists, -- former press secretary john boehner and vice president of jda front line, -- he had quartered in charleston, south carolina. >> you're all invited down. >> we'll meet at hank's. peter brown is assistant director of
. >> gentlemen, before i pitch to my colleague ron brown, editorial director of the nj. give a round of applause for rich, john and eliot. [applause] >> thank you. all of you have sat through a incredibly nutritious course. two panels on difference between domestic and foreign policy between president obama and mitt romney. now comes the dessert. >> a bunch of twinkies? >> exactly before either man can implement policies in 2013 they have to win election in november. for...
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brown: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. so ordered. mr. brown: thank you, madam president. i come to the floor to share some letters that i have received about the importance of freezing the 3.4% stafford subsidized college loan program. it's important because there are 300,000 students in my state alone in ohio, some 380,000, to be more precise, who are in the stafford subsidized loan program and many of them will see as they continue their college education, whether it's at sinclair community college in dayton or youngstown state or hyram college, where their -- their costs are continuing to go up. we know the average ohio college graduate has about $27,000 -- four-year college graduate has $27,000 in student loans. that's much higher than people had a decade ago or 20 years ago or 30 years ago when -- sort of when my generation was in college. the federally subsidized student loans have been a reliable answer for so many in
brown: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. so ordered. mr. brown: thank you, madam president. i come to the floor to share some letters that i have received about the importance of freezing the 3.4% stafford subsidized college loan program. it's important because there are 300,000 students in my state alone in ohio, some 380,000, to be more precise, who are in the stafford subsidized loan program and many...
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brown: wow. that was interesting. i remember the senator was speaking before me before we left she was praising the republicans for working with her, one republican specifically, about how appreciative she was about working together and taking the time in a bipartisan manner to work forward on a very important piece of legislation that she was spearheading and we worked for. we didn't filibuster that. we didn't filibuster the postal bill, we didn't filibuster the violence against women, the crowdfunding or the insider trading bill but all of a sudden we're filibustering now. bottom line, we wants an opportunity to have an alternative proposal and have a full and fair debate and i think the american people are smart. i know the smerp are -- american people are smarter than that. and i stand before you today to just reference that most students and parents know that in july the fixed interest rates on subsidized government student loans are set to double. that was very eloquently pointed out just now. but let's be clear
brown: wow. that was interesting. i remember the senator was speaking before me before we left she was praising the republicans for working with her, one republican specifically, about how appreciative she was about working together and taking the time in a bipartisan manner to work forward on a very important piece of legislation that she was spearheading and we worked for. we didn't filibuster that. we didn't filibuster the postal bill, we didn't filibuster the violence against women, the...
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we're looking at brown's field technicians and. how do we bring to bring people into that and create leverage to brownfield training program to really train people from the local community on new technology. a lot of people say well, how is cleaning up a contaminated field, trusting, i have read the course outline and thought maybe i just need to go back to school. because everything was involving some type of online connectivity for data, for data processing, and sharing. but the beauty of that is, these young people, and the people i can be retooled will go off and start businesses. they will be able to move forward and. i think that ties together the entire strategy. >> it's a very good conversation and the hatred and interrupt by want to make sure we get a few questions from the audience before we get ready to go but i think the point that you all are making also is right in line with the thinking around the theme for the national urban league this year which is really how to reconnect education and employment together, and pre
we're looking at brown's field technicians and. how do we bring to bring people into that and create leverage to brownfield training program to really train people from the local community on new technology. a lot of people say well, how is cleaning up a contaminated field, trusting, i have read the course outline and thought maybe i just need to go back to school. because everything was involving some type of online connectivity for data, for data processing, and sharing. but the beauty of...
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>> one of the biggest ones is senator john mccain and sherrod brown of bohon leota would have a lot of people prescription drugs from canada which would be of a lower-cost that's something we've seen come out in the senate for the past few years now but it always gets a lot of support but never quite enough to actually get adopted and will require 60 votes to get it adopted so we are not expecting it to meet that threshold. >> why do supporters say this bill is necessary? >> the programs funded in these fda bill to give them a lot of its money to do some of these reviews for drugs and devices on medical products. i think the prescription drug part is about 60% of all of the money they get in the prescription drugs comes from the user fees put in this bill so if they didn't have it they would lose a lot of money and have to fire a lot of staff they would start getting pink slips to employees this summer. >> what about the administration or what is their view of the bill? >> they've come out with administration policy saying they support the well and want it to pass. >> is the senate bil
>> one of the biggest ones is senator john mccain and sherrod brown of bohon leota would have a lot of people prescription drugs from canada which would be of a lower-cost that's something we've seen come out in the senate for the past few years now but it always gets a lot of support but never quite enough to actually get adopted and will require 60 votes to get it adopted so we are not expecting it to meet that threshold. >> why do supporters say this bill is necessary? >>...
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so you're, you know, the president of colorado university, hank brown -- who, by the way, has stepped down. he must wake up every morning and think, my god, he will not give up. it cost the university so much money to get rid of these people even when they have a great case. play jarrism, shoddy scholarship, there was so much wrong, yet it will continue going through the courts. the lesson identify gotten if -- i've gotten if you look at inside higher ed or one of these industry nude letter -- newsletters, they periodically run advice on how administrators can gently push these people out. and one of them i was sort of shocked to read was how an administrator can say to a professor for whom it's time to go, well, you can still teach one class, okay? so one guy wrote in saying that they had tried this at his school, you know, so they had hired a new, young professor, dynamic professor to take the place of this aging professor that everybody agreed was incompetent. and then they had this fight over who was going to teach this one class because the professor -- well, you promised i could
so you're, you know, the president of colorado university, hank brown -- who, by the way, has stepped down. he must wake up every morning and think, my god, he will not give up. it cost the university so much money to get rid of these people even when they have a great case. play jarrism, shoddy scholarship, there was so much wrong, yet it will continue going through the courts. the lesson identify gotten if -- i've gotten if you look at inside higher ed or one of these industry nude letter --...
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operates, then the current pm and chancellor, all former prime ministers including tony blair and gordon brown and former chancellors might want to consider revealing their texts and e-mails to company executives. .. more than any individual alive he is to blame. morally the deeds are his. he paid the piper and he caught the tune. it was his company, his culture, his people, his business, his failures, his lies, his crimes. the price of profits and his power. >> thank you, tom. i think it is fair to say that was not the unanimous view of the committee. [laughter] phillip davis. >> coming back to the report, which i don't think of that was anything to do with the report but if we come back to the report i think the chairman was right to focus on the parts of the report where we you unanimously agreed and that was on the people who misled the committee and the way in which they did mislead the committee and i very much hope people won't get sidelined by the other bits, bits of what we've just heard of. and which were not the overwhelming view of the committee. they aren't the unanimous view ever
operates, then the current pm and chancellor, all former prime ministers including tony blair and gordon brown and former chancellors might want to consider revealing their texts and e-mails to company executives. .. more than any individual alive he is to blame. morally the deeds are his. he paid the piper and he caught the tune. it was his company, his culture, his people, his business, his failures, his lies, his crimes. the price of profits and his power. >> thank you, tom. i think it...
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i went to browns sporting goods, and i got my first racquet. and the salesperson said, well, what kind do you want? i said, what does $8.29 buy? [laughter] so i got it because i loved the color. purple's my favorite color. lavender, violates all of those -- violets, all of those are my favorite. and i would sleep with my racquet every night, and i would dream about winning anding with number one. [laughter] so when i see this racquet i'm, like, oh, i love it, i love it. [laughter] just like linus, you know, with your blankie? that's how i am with a tennis racquet. when i see a racquet. but the biggest thing is the materials in the racquet. they're so light. my wood b racquet was 13 and three-quarter ounces. oh, my god -- nobody plays -- well, maybe fedderrer. sampras' was pretty hefty when he played. but the aerodynamics are great. the sweet spot be's a lot bigger. i can go on and on. and now they've got this string. all the pros are talking about the string they use, that's all they talk about. oh, it's got little sharp things in the strings,
i went to browns sporting goods, and i got my first racquet. and the salesperson said, well, what kind do you want? i said, what does $8.29 buy? [laughter] so i got it because i loved the color. purple's my favorite color. lavender, violates all of those -- violets, all of those are my favorite. and i would sleep with my racquet every night, and i would dream about winning anding with number one. [laughter] so when i see this racquet i'm, like, oh, i love it, i love it. [laughter] just like...
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i want to thank in particular my colleague senator brown from massachusetts and senator toomey from pennsylvania who have spoken on this issue and understand completely the devastation that this tax will create for patients and for employers that provide good jobs for communities in their states. thanks to obamacare, medical devices will get hit with a $28 billion tax. and so we are clear about what these medical devices are. they include surgical tools, bed pans, wheelchairs, stethoscopes and countless other projects that patients and doctors rely on every day. surgical masks, gloves, blood pressure monitors, scissors, needles, lights, stents, pacemakers, scales, scalpels, ankle, knee and hip braces and a lot more. the cost of all these products is going up, thanks to this tax. somebody is going to have to pay for it, and that somebody is the already overburdened american taxpayer and middle-class breadwinner. the president and his supporters seem to think you can simply tax corporations and individuals with impunity and face no adverse economic consequences. yet, economists understand that whe
i want to thank in particular my colleague senator brown from massachusetts and senator toomey from pennsylvania who have spoken on this issue and understand completely the devastation that this tax will create for patients and for employers that provide good jobs for communities in their states. thanks to obamacare, medical devices will get hit with a $28 billion tax. and so we are clear about what these medical devices are. they include surgical tools, bed pans, wheelchairs, stethoscopes and...
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i've been to berkeley california and i've been to brown and to georgetown, yale to defend israel and i do it from the left in part because one of the things i want to give credit to as the netanyahu government. the right republican party, whether the history of the united states three government leaders have said pro-things from the house of representatives. bill clinton, barack obama and benjamin netanyahu made a very strong pro-gay statement. is one of the few times when the republicans did not stand up to applaud him. but the fact is that if your position is that you're just going to defend whatever the israeli government does, then your credibility as a worldwide defender of israel is weekend. i do not think it is possible and the administration hasn't is hasn't done it to say it's israel's responsibility to get piece. what israel needs to do is make it clear that if there is not a genuine two-state solution with real security for israel it is not israel's fault and there are political pressures and here's the deal. there a clearly political pressures within that democracy of isr
i've been to berkeley california and i've been to brown and to georgetown, yale to defend israel and i do it from the left in part because one of the things i want to give credit to as the netanyahu government. the right republican party, whether the history of the united states three government leaders have said pro-things from the house of representatives. bill clinton, barack obama and benjamin netanyahu made a very strong pro-gay statement. is one of the few times when the republicans did...